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Editorial Reviews
ALTERNATIVE PRESS
"Fads come and go, but every smart dresser should have one of these in their closet."

TRACTOR
"Her extraordinary talents as a songwriter are what make her special and connect her to familiar traditions."

Album Description
Recorded on one summer weekend, live to two-track with three friends. We knew some of the songs better than others. It is the record of what happened when non-blues-obsessed players tackled some of my basic American music.

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Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • ...interesting.
  • smart, funny, bitter, catchy
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004UE5X
Release Date: 1998-03-17

Tracks:

  1. Just One of Those Things
  2. Date With Destiny
  3. Sensitive City
  4. Everybody Knows Your Name
  5. Soul Kiss
  6. The Thing that Words Can Kill
  7. Mister Downbeat
  8. The Prodigal Children
  9. The History of New York
  10. Moon River

Album Description

Recorded on one summer weekend, live to two-track with three friends. We knew some of the songs better than others. It is the record of what happened when non-blues-obsessed players tackled some of my basic American music.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars ...interesting........2004-05-03

This work is sensitive, probing, and introspective.

However I'm still trying to figure out why Mimi called me a dumb s--- when we were both in high school, and neither one of us could hotwire the school van that had broken down...

Adolescent hijinks aside, this CD is nicely done.

4 out of 5 stars smart, funny, bitter, catchy.......2003-08-12

Mimi Schneider may be too smart for her own good. This recording is easy to get interested in, but hard to get close to. After a number of listenings one is hard pressed to figure how someone this appealingly gifted can seem so inconsolable. One gets the impression that the artist has been taking notes on everything since she was old enough to form the alphabet, yet each of her nine original songs read like Dear John letters, if not suicide notes. Her betrayal, by half-hearted lovers, distracted parents, inconstant friends, and an unreflective society, takes up most of the air in this case.

"History of New York" is the last of the nine, and brings a welcome feeling of sympathy for her parents as they seek to assimilate into the American mainstream.

The disc concludes with a cover, of Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's, that melts down like HAL's version of "Bicycle Built For Two" in "2001 - A Space Odyssey."

Her songwriting shares some stylistic tendencies with Elvis Costello's work, but at heart I'd say her closer soulmate would be author Truman Capote. Her "Grass Harp" may yet be within her.

Music:

  1. Central Nervous System
  2. Chore of Enchantment [Import]
  3. Clockbox
  4. Comic Book Superhero [Explicit Lyrics]
  5. Coming Down
  6. Crime Fighter
  7. Death and the Teetering Note
  8. Declaration
  9. Diesel & Dust
  10. Dry Heat

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Music

Showtime [Live]

Wagner, Verdi and Leoncavallo

Wedding

Australian Tour Ep/Remixes [CD-single] [Import]

Finders Keepers [Import]

What's Following Me

What Women Want (2000 Film) [Soundtrack]

William Boyce: Solomon, A Serenata

Very Best Roll Over 20th [Import]

Viola Concertos

Unconditional Love

Wings of Hope

Tex-Mex

Canadian Brass: CBC Radio Years

Life After That